Digital Man wrote to WitNik <=-

By suggesting this feature, I accept your scorn if you feel this is unworthy of your time.

Seems like a fine idea and likely not too difficult to implement.

Aw, come on, DM - throw a *little* scorn his way... :)



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Re: Re: Feature Request / Suggestion - ip.can
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Tue Nov 10 2020 07:16:00

Digital Man wrote to WitNik <=-

By suggesting this feature, I accept your scorn if you feel this is unworthy of your time.

Seems like a fine idea and likely not too difficult to implement.

Aw, come on, DM - throw a *little* scorn his way...

It's really does not take much time to include for someone that has a lot of experience writting code. A little bit of effort will help everyone in the long run. It may in the future convice users to start reading the newsgroups when they see legit messages being posted in the newsgroups and have the proper tools to filter out the bad ones.

Here is my points.

1. The current filters that is supported by Synchronet is to much a burden on the sysop and does not work very good. I can easly by pass them with little efford.

2. Using a seperate script to read the body of the message message to delete the old and keep the good message as one sysop recommended here is will work.

3. In the long run it may convince more users and sysop to read the newsgroups knowing that the good messages are kept and the spam is deleted.

4. Cross posting messages or quoting existing messages that already have spam can by pass the filters creating more spam.

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Re: Re: Feature Request / Suggestion - ip.can
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Tue Nov 10 2020 07:16:00

It's really does not take much time to include for someone that has a lot of experience writting code. A little bit of effort will help everyone in the long run. It may in the future convice users to start reading the newsgroups when they see legit messages being posted in the newsgroups and have the proper tools to filter out the bad ones.

Here is my points.

2. Using a seperate script to read the body of the message message to delete the old and keep the good message as one sysop recommended here is will work.

instead of nuking an entire message that may or may not be offensive because of a substring match ... why not just string replace and add 'CENSORED' to the headers similar to how smtp prepends SPAM: ... I've been using that method on my commercial site for decades (except I replace good words with profanity :)

3. In the long run it may convince more users and sysop to read the newsgroups knowing that the good messages are kept and the spam is deleted.

Maybe I filter out G-rated conversations ... grandpa always said "ya can't trust a fella that say talk shit"

4. Cross posting messages or quoting existing messages that already have spam can by pass the filters creating more spam.

your message is already cross posted ... also getting all of this in FidoNet Synchronet ... just sayin' :/

good luck on your sbbs endeavours, brah

10-7 on this one

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Re: Re: Feature Request / Suggestion - ip.can
By: Mortifis to plt on Tue Nov 10 2020 23:35:51

Re: Re: Feature Request / Suggestion - ip.can
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Tue Nov 10 2020 07:16:00

It's really does not take much time to include for someone that has a lot of experience writting code. A little bit of effort
will help everyone in the long run. It may in the future convice users to start reading the newsgroups when they see legit
messages being posted in the newsgroups and have the proper tools to filter out the bad ones.

Here is my points.

2. Using a seperate script to read the body of the message message to delete the old and keep the good message as one sysop
recommended here is will work.

instead of nuking an entire message that may or may not be offensive because of a substring match ... why not just string
replace
and add 'CENSORED' to the headers similar to how smtp prepends SPAM: ... I've been using that method on my commercial site for
decades (except I replace good words with profanity :)

Adding option to newslink.js to delete the entire message or add the word censored should be up to each individual sysop. The individuals rights to be censored ends when they decide to be abusive on the internet.

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